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General Software Discussion / Re: 30 Days of DonationCoder Screencasts - Video Links Here

« Last post by mouser on August 08, 2009, 04:54 AM »

3 more screenshot captor videos in the queue, then i've got probably 2 or 3 dozen (!) videos to do about FARR.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin Screencasts

« Last post by mouser on August 08, 2009, 01:50 AM »

cool feature -- i never new about that!

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / FARR Plugin Screencasts

« Last post by mouser on August 08, 2009, 01:17 AM »

As part of my series of screencast video demos of FARR, I will be making screencasts of some farr plugins.

I am willing to make a screencast of any plugin whose author wants me to.

The target length for the screencasts I make is about 2 minutes long.

All you have to do is send me a personal message or post a reply on this thread saying you would like me to make a screencast demo of your plugin, and highlighting any features you would like me to mention.  Remember that I won't know how to use it as well as you do, so give me as many suggestions as you can, but remember that I am aiming for a video length of about 2 minutes.

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General Software Discussion / 30 Days of DonationCoder Screencasts - Day 8 - Screenshot Captor: Image Resizing

« Last post by mouser on August 08, 2009, 01:04 AM »

DAY 8:

The short video demonstrates the image resizing features of Screenshot Captor:

https://www.donation...c/3ds/sc12/sc12.html

For more info about this screencast series see here.
The entire series will be quickly browsable from here, please pass it on: https://www.donationcoder.com/3ds/

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General Software Discussion / Re: 30 Days of DonationCoder Screencasts - Video Links Here

« Last post by mouser on August 08, 2009, 12:59 AM »

well you'll have to attend the next DC dinner and board game night then!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR v2 - Official Bug Tracking and Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2009, 07:17 PM »

that's strange.. i can maybe guess what the problem is though -- the search area actually has a place for a toolbar to the right of it.
see if you can expand the window width far enough to get it back, and then drag the right end of the search box to enlarge it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Fileinfo (file extension seeker) at top of list

« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2009, 02:52 PM »

great question, and thank you for the nice words.

you've got lots of options to solve your problem.

FileInfo is an "alias" that comes included with Farr..

So one thing you can do if you don't like it is just disable that alias.  Right-click on the FileInfo result and choose "Visit the source alias" then just uncheck the file info item.

Another thing you could do is go to the Options -> List -> Search Folders
and increase the scores for your normal start menu items, to boost it up a few hundred points so it beats out the aliases.

Another thing you could do is add a specific alias or score for a keyword you want to use to launch firefox.  for example if you ALWAYS want to be able to type f then enter to launch firefox, then add yourself an alias named F whose result is firefox.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2009, 06:57 AM »

hahahaahahah great stuff everyone.
dwbrant, your mouse pic looks like it could come from a disney movie.

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General Software Discussion / Re: tool to check if TIFF files compressed ?

« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2009, 03:33 AM »

download link for tiffInfoGUI is broken, skwire.

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General Software Discussion / 30 Days of DonationCoder Screencasts - Day 7 - Screenshot Captor: Options Tour

« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2009, 03:27 AM »

DAY 7:

The video is just a long 10 minute session of me walking through the various options tabs and explaining what they do:

https://www.donation...c/3ds/sc11/sc11.html

This screencast may only be useful if you suffer from insomnia, but I thought I would make it in the spirit of completeness.


For more info about this screencast series see here.
The entire series will be quickly browsable from here, please pass it on: https://www.donationcoder.com/3ds/

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General Software Discussion / Re: 30 Days of DonationCoder Screencasts - Video Links Here

« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2009, 03:23 AM »

you're right - the sound is a bit messed up, though i'm not sure what i did differently -- bad mic position maybe.  i'll try to watch for that in future.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: Chore Cards.. Almost makes it fun..

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2009, 04:14 PM »

I use a Dymo labeler for all of these things
(see my mini-review here)

It makes a *HUGE* difference in terms of usability.. you might not think it would but it really does.. the brain just seems to process these cards differently if they have clean printed label vs. hand-written.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Can FARR be used to switch between open windows?

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2009, 02:21 PM »

that would actually be a fun plugin for someone to write -- a plugin that intercepts launch commands, and if it finds the exe already running, checks its lists of which programs should get second instances, and which programs should just be switched to.

if anyone feels like writing such a plugin, it is possible to do.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Default alias for nircmd

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2009, 02:10 PM »

you could also manually edit the alias file, it's just a plaintext xml file -- and change the path to nircmd.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: Chore Cards.. Almost makes it fun..

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2009, 01:27 PM »

do you ever get the feeling no one takes you seriously?

nah, it's all in good fun. 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Default alias for nircmd

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2009, 01:25 PM »

i guess first step is to see if ANY of the nircmd aliases work -- try screensaver start.
if not, then something else is wrong.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Default alias for nircmd

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2009, 12:51 PM »

sounds like you just need to install the nircmd alias pack:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9365.0

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Default alias for nircmd

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2009, 12:43 PM »

can you elaborate a little on what you are trying and what's not working.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 1.0.1]

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2009, 10:37 AM »

nice, thank you 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Ad-Aware identifies frr as threat

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2009, 10:36 AM »

these damn companies!! why can't they get their act together.
thanks for the heads up tunayx -- i will contact them.

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Living Room / Re: Myer-Briggs Personality Test For Programmers (or anybody)

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2009, 10:35 AM »

I think many of the questions aren't suitable for simple yes/no answers - much like political polls and moral/ethical questions we all face in life.  I prefer a format where you can assign weights to your answers.

agreed -- i could have gone either way on many.

and the actual label seems less useful than the percentage breakdown.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Can FARR be used to switch between open windows?

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2009, 10:07 AM »

Yes it can, if you use the FARRAltTab plugin from DC member vitalyb:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=10988

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General Software Discussion / 30 Days of DonationCoder Screencasts - Day 6 - Screenshot Captor: Zoom+Pan

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2009, 04:44 AM »

DAY 6:

The video demonstrates the basic zoom+pan controls in Screenshot Captor:

https://www.donation...c/3ds/sc10/sc10.html

For more info about this screencast series see here.
The entire series will be quickly browsable from here, please pass it on: https://www.donationcoder.com/3ds/

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: dont work the book selection

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2009, 04:42 AM »

you added checkmarks on the books you wanted, and it still doesn't show any entries?

Try this:

• go to the books tab in options
• add checkmarks to some books
• now right-click in that window and choose "Rescan Book Directory"
• now select a book you added a checkmark too and see if it tells you how many entires are in that book
• now click OK to close the options and double click on the tray icon to get a new quote.

if that's still not working, then tell me where it went wrong, and what operating system you are using.

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Living Room / Re: Myer-Briggs Personality Test For Programmers (or anybody)

« Last post by mouser on August 05, 2009, 10:29 PM »

My results:


meh.